Clean Your Makeup Brushes With the Help of Hair Ties

Would you have thought that an easy way to get your makeup brushes clean actually involves your hair ties? More specifically, drying your makeup brushes after cleaning is easier and faster with hair ties! How can hair ties help? Stick around, and I’ll show you.

I don’t know about you, but when I clean my makeup brushes, they get thoroughly wet. As recommended, I lay them down to dry on a clean towel. But then I wait. And wait. And wait a little longer. Then maybe I turn them over a few times and pick them up and slap them on the towel to get them to dry faster. Drying them seems to take forever! This is where hair ties come in. Get a fresh supply from Dollar Tree!

Slapping your brushes on a towel can actually damage the bristles. If you own some nice makeup brushes {like these from Amazon!} you don’t want to do this. Instead, grab your hair ties. You’ll need one hair tie for each of your freshly cleaned makeup brushes.

Find a horizontal bar in your bathroom. The shower curtain rod is perfect. If you don’t have a shower curtain, try a towel bar. Anywhere that allows your brushes to hang upside down with plenty of air circulation is perfect. Hold each makeup brush upside down and perpendicular to the curtain rod. Use a hair tie to securely fasten the center of each brush handle to the curtain rod, as shown in the picture above.

Now your brushes can dry faster without any risk of damage to the bristles. Genius!